My music is best understood by children and animals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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What force is more potent than love?
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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